This GLASS PEN is Unlike Anything I've Ever Used!...
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"What's your favourite colour?"
"Ostrich."
Lmao
"so, Brown?"
"No, you *PEASANT!* "
African Ostrich is the only species of colour
my favourite colour is dog
Green
"Glass Pen" You can't fool me Jazza. I know a unicorn horn when I see one.
Wait a minute... have they..?
Jazza: *Ok.*
Jazza: oh sh*t they found out
Jazzy: đđđđ !
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Is it just me, or is the black from the dip in pen âblackerâ than the go-to pens from Jazza?
Definitely. His go to ones are more marker so it has a slight streakiness to it, but since the glass is so solid and the ink is fresh it's a lot more solid black
Because it's PURE INK
@@xzellow07 Sheesh No need to sound so angwy :3
@@mikeazton6945 I just made the letters big, sorry :)
Caligraphy ink is thicker than drawing ink. I also think that drawing ink in general does not need to be that dark, because most artists reproduce their art (like in comic books), and the whole process of digitalizing, editing and printing is going to change the tones anyway
I love my glass dip pen!
I use it primarily for calligraphy and occasionally for inking thinks that arenât going to be colored; and for the âoh, thatâs a very unique toolâ from my art professor đ
which glass pen do u use?
@@cat-hx1sh i don't know the brand, as the box is entirely in Japanese. (it was a gift from my father.)
to my knowledge, it's just a generic glass dip pen, like if you go to amazon and just search "glass dip pen".
mine, personally, is clear with black and silver inside.
â@@Armund_WolffeI know this is two years late, but if you want me to identify the brand upload a picture to imgur or something and send the link
Jazza: "YoU gUeSsEd It!" *draws a hippo, a giraffe and an ostrich*
Me: I did not guess it
I thought he was gonna draw his avatar.
Lmao same
Why didn't he draw the camel?
What a suprise! He isn't predictable đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
I thought it would be another dragon. He does do a LOT of dragons.
Ink: Hippopotamus is hippopotamus
_hMmMm YeS tHiS fLoOr Is MaDe Of FlOor_
every 60 seconds in africa is a minute in here
Wrong ,floor is made of
cement/tiles/wood or whatever type of floor you r talking about
@@hurricane-pb7yt r/woooosh
Hrishikesh Parikh r/WOOOOOOSH
*I GoT FiSh FrOm FiShInG*
When drawing with the ink dip pen, you have the advantage of being able to spread the inks to give shading and changing the intensity of the colour by using a water brush to move the ink about. Yes you can do the same with non permanent pens, but the ink is much easier and fades much better!
"This is like a golden color"
Either he's color blind... I'm color blind... or youtube is
Adele Dazeem no i think hes color blind cuz it looks red!
The color is a paid actor
The golden color he mentions is the shimmer in the ink, not the ink itself. A lot of these glass pen sets come with gold shimmer ink.
@@marciadamelio7244 Gold and red look so great together!
Correct
"This pen allows you to express your personality"
Jazza's personality: hiPpOPatoMAs iS HiPpOPatoMAs
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The blackness of the glass penâs ink was much richer....that one upside.
It was yeah, but that's just more of a wet ink thing tbh, always nice deep blacks
Yeah and much more consistent, you can't see at all where his strokes were after, surprised he didn't mention that one
generally dip inks are much better quality than pen inks. I think maybe comparing it to cartridge/felt tip pens is sort of doing it a disservice, since dip inking in general is a much different experience. I think a better comparison would have been the between glass pen and other dip ink pens, since it seems like the glass pen is one of the better dip ink pens.
Came here to say that
It is not the glass pens ink. It is the hippopotamus ink.
Ok hear me out, color changing lights distort the colors in the room, Jazz a should get color changing lights in a dark space (no other light sources) and he should do a drawing with the color distortion
I feel like that pen was extracted straight from a unicorns head...why is my brain like this?
bc you see magic everywhere and it's a good trait to have
âItâs not the worst pen Iâve ever used and it has a lot of cons, but I really like itâ
âHow come?â
âShiiiinyyyyyy...đâ
he's the crab from moana
The Game Challenger Omg your so right
Me: looking at the amount of likes....999, might as well make it 1000.đ
SHINee!! anyone. ? No just me. Alright. Thatâs fine
Enybody have an link to get the pen
With the final drawing the guy Jazza drew with the glass pen: his vest is the blackest black I have ever seen in a drawing.
I know right! Usually when I use black to colour something in, it looks more like a really dark shade of grey
Yup, gotta love ink for that one
I agree. That was a really nice deep black.
Yes
This is upside to using dip pens, or so Iâve heard.
Itâs one of the only fancy pens I can use, cause Iâm left handed. đ
Also, these are on aliexpress for cheap, cause a lot of the ones being sold that I see are the same ones from ali.
So what is it called exactly? Glass pen? I'm left handed too and struggle a bit with art supplies
@@shay514 âGlass dip penâ is what theyâre called. :)
Tell me about it ... I feel you.
I love using glass dip pens with water color. The ink keeps its sharp edges, adds most contrast and clarity to water color works.
"cause it's shiny"
How dare you appeal to my crow brain
That was my first thought. That pen is so pretty. đ
I thought magpies were the ones who liked shiny things though..?
@@milkbee346 Both do đ
My magpie brain can't disagree
I canât disagree I canât keep myself away from shiny things
The smearing probably isnât the pens fault itâs most likely the inks .
Totally
Probably a combo of the ink and the paper causing it to dry slower
Yeah I think it may have had more in some places and he needed to wait more until it dried. Like the eyes when he filled them totally in, they smeared the most so I think they just needed more time to dry than most of the lines.
dude an ant it reminds me of the first time I used a fountain pen on a Rhodia notepad...... I have since learned that drying time matters đ
1000%
The pen can't control the inks drying time and quality, only the ink can control the inks properties. Lol.
Dude. đČ
Iâm legit blown away. Iâd no idea I was more ânormalâ than Iâd ever imagined. Thank God for Internet, Iâm not alone. Iâm not the only weirdo that freaks over a nice inkflow. I also thought pen fetish was a Girl Thing, but you done proved that wrong. đ„°
Plus youâre adorable.
A fellow that is excited about ink pens AND is adorable.
I wish my husband liked office supplies the way I do.
Wait...
Scratch that. Heâd be forever losing my bits and ink. I know him too well. Iâll leave him to his motorcycles as I test drive New PENS!!!
The ink on his hands makes me very nervous. If that was me, my entire drawing would be smudged from the ink on my hand.
Congratulations you've just explained my entire creative process
For the full art with this: Every time the pen runs out he has to switch to a different color ink and complete the whole drawing like that
But he has to continue from where he left off, he can't go to another section when he runs out of ink
Brennen Berends đđ»đđ»đđ»đđ»đđ»
You are a genius my son
2K likes - 4 replies
That seems really awesome
Thought the ink was made of animals. I'm horrified at my own thought
ë°æșèŁ i literally thought the same, i was going to cry đ
Wait it's not?
apple juice mae i hope not
So am I đđ
Me too
That dude is literally ripped! On another note: I've been wanting to purchase glass sp pens cir a while, so it's good to know about the feeling of it scratching against thr paper. I guess if I do, it'll be just for collecting.
Yes, they can be scratchy, but you can affect that. The way the tip is ground is going to affect the feel against the paper, and you can polish the tip a bit for a smoother writing experience.
Everything about this review makes me happy. I've been playing with liquid ink for decades, so of course there is a glass pen on my desk. Mostly used to put new ink on multiple kinds of paper quickly so I know how I want to use it. The inkwell is for water to rinse.
Jazza: âIâm going to sketch- you guessed itâ
Me: the jazza avatar!
Jazza: *shows sketches of animals*
Me: oh
OMG thats what I thought
Haha same
...am i the only who guessed right?
XD
DON'T let this distract you from the fact that I smell like 100 de*d orangutans. I am also the unprettiest CZcamsr worldwide. Greetings dear phong
Phuong Anh this is what I thought too đ
Me trying to reach the essay word count: "hippopotamus is a large mammal of hippopotamus"
Elena Elena underrated comment
@@chiefexecutivemanager8152 Haha somebody finally got the joke
XDDD SAME
"every 60 seconds in Africa is a minute"
joseraynor tibor cool
Wow I LOVE that final drawing! It has a traditional comic book feel, I duno I really really like the look of the lines and how deep the filled in areas pop!
I don't have near you're artistic abilities, but I do love pens and love to draw. That glass pen looks like it might be a little bit difficult at first but if you used it for a week straight you might be amazed at how versatile it is? Keep up the cool and good work.
As a lettering artist for over 40 years, may I offer some thoughts. I don't own one of these pens so I speak at a disadvantage. I have a huge collection of calligraphy dip pens and nibs. And I also do a lot of drawing with a wide variety of pens. Including the brush marker you use in the video. The pen looks like it is best suited for lettering not drawing. The little glass jar is likely to be used for water to rinse off the nib. I would be using the dropper to drop ink onto top of the nib for it to flow down to the tip. No professional lettering artist I know dips the pen directly into the bottle of ink. If you own one, try dropping a drop of a different colour when your ink is partially done. You will be pleased with the results of mixing colours.....start with one colour, have a mix of two and end with another colour. And let the ink dry at least overnight before you erase pencil guidelines. I have couple of videos on CZcams on beginner lessons on Italic lettering font as well as videos of my colouring book for adults.....so you can see that I do speak from experience.
This is a valuable and informational comment; underrated.
Omg thank you for that incredible information sir đđđđ
Awesome info thank you!!!!
Nerd
Well as I can see in these days, young have discovered "Lettering" recently, I am a 53 old now and used to be a hand lettering artist since my 14's to about 30, them I can understand why so many surprised people around here. Your comment was exactly what I was thinking to write. So now I don't have to.
âThis is kind of a gold colourâ
The colour red:
âAm I a joke to you?â
Did you call me
lol
@@amiajoke2u_323 r/namechecksout
@@amiajoke2u_323 lol
@@amiajoke2u_323 XD XD XD UwU
I have this and I love it! I use for my watercolor paintings when I want a fine line.
I love have much fun Jazza is having with this pen. Just the clear enjoyment of it is great to watch.
The ink wasn't smudging...you just didnt leave it to dry long enough +_+
yeah, the more ink you use in one spot, the longer the dry time will be. modern pens tend to spoil use in that regard.
Lol i was so mad when he did that lol
Because itâs probably not an alcohol based ink dry time will be longer you are correct!
@@karlincottuli2453 100%
@@annienewman8312 Yep. And this is why the thin lines didnt smudge ^^
The solid black colour of from the glass pen is friggin amazing though.
Rachyl Elliott itâs like vanta black đ€©đ„°
I was gonna say the same thing!
Rachyl Elliott yeah...the shirt with usual markers is a little inconsistent, while the glass pen is literally like a black hole
I saw this comment as it happened on screen
Rachyl Elliott 1
I might look into this. I like the aesthetic and feel of working with flowing ink - plenty of happy accidents that bring the piece to life. I can see the glass as being quite good for sketching in sepia tones.
I hope you've given it a try by now! Glass pens are a really unique experience. Every one is slightly different, because the way the tip is ground affects how smoothly it writes and how the ink flows. I love mine, but even the ones that are mass-produced have their own personality.
I didnât know I need dancing Jazza in my life, perhaps next time heâll dance to Jazz? đ 4:10 best rhyme:
âNow Iâm pretty aware that this might be, specifically, for calligraphy.â
Normal people: Inkwell
Jazza, an intellectual: Dip-thing
Me: a cute littie glass cup. I mean little
Jazza: dip-thing
Jazza's brain: you're an artist, you can't say that
Jazza: inkwell
Deserves way more likes.
Me:LIKE IT
Hahhahhhaaa đ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ
@@DrowningScallop Well I just liked it and it went from 999 to 1k so is that good enough? Because it felt really good lol
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I recommend getting a heat tool to dry the inks on your illustrations. Any rubber stamper's heat tool should work well enough. The Wagner one has a dual temp control. Fewer smudges. I would love to see some abstract work with the glass pen, maybe something involving text or calligraphy.
Jazza: talking
Me: looking at the ink on his hands
Lucille Haden lol
Lucille Haden yep!
Definitely woulda listed that as a con
Okay
Meee to
I'd love to see Jazza attempt to do nail art. Would be interesting to see how he can work with nail polish đ
One like=a chance for Jazza to see this
Oh YES!
Yesđ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
Have you seen his fingers?
Oh yes! That would be amazing
Love the sharpness of color. Nothing better than a crisp black.
Dude thatâs so smooth.
As a kid my dad had a bunch of calligraphy pens on his desk and I always thought they were the coolest thing not knowing what they were.. just that they made the nicest lines.
I agree!
Agree
MaggieBear Mhm, I know that too well. My mom used to have this weird, big, pink pen. But it used water instead of ink to draw, and it always seemed to refill by itself
TheNerd173 lmao
They are cool. I've always wanted to learn calligraphy especially Arabic calligraphy. Its beautiful
Jazza: *erases pencil
Me: *blows on phone screen
They ask you how you are and you just have to say that you're fine when you're not really fine but you just can't get into it because they would never understand.
I can hear this comment
how do i like a comment twice
@Typical User t'was a joke but fair
Fruit Connoisseur ikr
I feel like your art on the right has the feel of old ink pen drawings like that of Hirschfeld. Technology has brought art to a whole new level, but it's nice seeing art the way that it used to be made years ago when life was simpler.
These glass pens are superb for applying masking fluid for watercolor and the like. Peels right off. The peeling is very satisfying, also.
11:09
âI think itâs probably messier than I would have likedâ
Jazza describing my life
Oh my goodness, felt that for sure XD
Jeremy Shaw haha this is very rElAtAbLe and qUeRkY
Ilman Maalik
We love đ *=*~~*quirky*~~*=* đ and đ« âïž relatable âïž đ« content.
Mood
Jazza: * buys a calligraphy pen *
Jazza: * doesnt do any calligraphy *
I'm really glad to have stumbled upon this video, because I've been interested in getting this glass dip pen kit. Now I have a better idea of what to expect, and I definitely want one.
I'm heavy handed too. Many a fine liner have been destroyed due to my angry drawing.
That erasing issue is also devastating. Watching your videos has shown me that a lot of the 'mistakes' I have made in my drawing was a learning process. I appreciate that
I will say the black ink in the âantagonistâ is quite solid and beautiful, so I think maybe the ink medium is used so you donât see as many strokes when it comes to solid patches of color in drawings. It is quite shiny and pretty too! *wow thank you everyone for the likes, Iâve never had this many and I feel special. đ
Agree đ Much brighter.
yep
Olivia Hawthorne czcams.com/video/4ibF60oaKnw/video.html
I wanna like but it's at 420 so-
BrixSuzu Haha đ
I have a tip to the pen:
The more vertically you hold the pen, the thicker the line
I use one of the glass pen so hope this helps ( :
Is the glass that good? I hate having to dip nearly every letter! Blows my flow. LOL âđ»
@@PhoenixLyon well you saw you can get quite a few lines without re dipping.
Depends on how big your letters are
@@dutchik5107 And how thick you make tails and cross t's. Thanks. âđž
How do you not accidentally drop it sometimes... This would break instantly in my hands...
@@sturmfrei5853 glass is sturdier than you think. I have several of those glass pens and haven't broken one yet. I even travel with them.
I`ve learned more about tools from you than anywhere else. Still to practise using them, looking forward to it. thanks Jezza!
I've been dying for one of these glass lens since the freaking 90s when they started appearing in all the gift shops along the coast here in California... I think I'm going to have to finally go buy myself one.
âLets turn the pageâ
*Proceeds to rip the page out*
BlazeTheWolf it hurts my soul when he ripped the mostly empty page
*DONT*
*TRASH*
*THE*
*PAPER!!!!!!!!*
Lol, the second he said "The ink should be dry", I went "Oop, it's gonna smear. It never dries that quickly."
Blotting paper would fix that. Used it all the time at school.
I like the illustrations shown with the the dip ink pen. Thanks for sharing.
I have a glass pen. I don't know if anyone already mentioned but you can control the ink flow a bit depending on what angle the tip is in relation to the paper.
Hope you had fun playing with it. I find the shimmery inks can get caught up in te grooves more then the non shimmery kind. You can use reg calligraphy ink with it and the matte kind is best for sketch. This is what I learned through trial and error.
I would say the glass pen ink has a "smoother" finish when doing the larger areas. The felt pens I can see the brush strokes.
Agreed, the coverage on the vest done with the glass pen was very nice.
It was very solid and dark in the shirt, that part looked great
Tleewhit81 I was thinking the same thing, how consistent and dark the dip pen black turned out on the shirt!
Agreed
Color: is red
Nobody:
Jazza : âlooks goldenâ
Maybe it looks different on camera than paper
It does look a bit different in person, I have this set. They have a metallic shift to them & one of them has a gold shift.
Before he did the mixy mixy dance you could see the little splotch of gold in the red ink. So it's got both! Lovely color :) probably shimmers if you shift the paper
0:03 "hey i got a new pen!" *Opens a box full of flashbangs*
I use a traditional dip pen with a vintage pen nib for lining now. I had the nibs for writing letters, but figured I might as well try it, since i had various colors of pigment ink, and I was tired of buying fineliners. Boom, better lines, and buying bottles of ink is much cheaper than repurchasing felt tip pens every couple months when they dry out.
âAfrican ostrich is the only species of ostrichâ
Somali ostrich: am I a joke to you?
The somali ostrich isn't the representative of the birds though.
aint somali in africa tho?
Ăandu?
Lerry ostrich: đ
you guys do not get jokes
I'm so surprised that he didn't try to pipette two different inks on the pen, on either side of it, or one color higher and another lower, to acheive a gradual mix of colors. Just like the thumbnail.
I have a glass dip pen! They're great for writing letters to make them look fancy đ
I love how black the black ink on the right is. Itâs so pleasing
Jazza: âIâm going to sketch, you guessed it-â
Me: Yourself? A dragon? đ
SAME
Himself as a dragon???
@@TheAbsoluteMost4972 "Write that down! Write that down!"
It says 699 likes but here it says 724!?
@Nutella ThePikmipopLlama YOUR RIGHT
10:54
Can we just talk about how satisfying that solid black is?
And i just thought, i just see it.
The Black on the Glass Pen is really solid compare to the sketch black.
Peter Hans yes yes
MadCraze 18 yes!
I use mine for drawing with ink, water color, watered down acrylic, and thinned out oil paint. Really good for getting those fine details, and the different mediums are easy to clean out of the glass pen.
I think being able to use it with paint is the biggest advantage.
I agree with you about the feel of the glass on paper. It was like nails on a chalkboard for me, so I shelved mine and eventually discarded it. I'm glad you're having a good experience with them, though.
Incidentally, if you want to do calligraphy and don't want to dip, there are calligraphy cartridge pens.
me: itâs red ink
jazza: itâs like a vermillion gold
me: yep vermillion with undertones of canary and hints of brass
The first thing I thought when i saw the title of this video was:
"Jazza with a glass pen. The minute he picks it up he's gonna drop it and its gonna break."
Im an army so i actually thought u were referring to namjoonie
I subscribed at âColor me ostrich.â
I love how dark the black is in the glass pen ink vs the marker one. I mean you'd probably want to use a brush as opposed to the glass pen when coloring in but some of those lines were better. thought the marker I bet is definitely faster. Though Jazza may want to use sand to help dry the ink before erasing
"Because it's shiiiiiny" yup. That's why I buy most things.
Thats why i bought a gun
CardZ ummm ok đ
Humans are just crows in disguise.
SkotyDawg r/woooosh
Artsy Jellybean ok...........
One of the most effective classes Iâve ever taken for my art was colour theory. Gotta say, really wish weâd covered the relationship of hippopotamus, ostrich and giraffe more thoroughly.
I like the outcome of the glass quill pen. I have one, but from Dollar Tree and it works great.
filling with the glass pen is just so much more black and satisfying
"I got a new pen" **holy music**
As a fellow artist, I can confirm there is indeed *Holy Music* when receiving new art suppliesđ
@@queensaharaice7376 Truest words ever spoken
thus why working in an art supply store is dealing with disaster O_O
ha
@@LizGridleyArtist - heavy breathing intensifies -
The poor in me cries every time he rips a page after only drawing two lines.
Dear God same
Thank God it's not just me
betty ayele đđ»đđ»đđ»đđ»
Same hahaha
SAME. I was saying "please use the other side of the page" everytime
the gritty texture before you colored it added something nice to the second half of the mirror
Thank you for covering this I've always wondered about these
Let's be honest,
Jazza is good at everything.
Realism flashbacks*
Maybe
yes.
True
Soap flashback
âColour me impressed, or at the very least, colour me ostrich...â- Jazza 2020
@just a random dude lol same
What does that mean?đ
Shiam Rahman A quite
What???
I should be working, but Iâm completely enthralled watching you test a glass pen. đ
I really like how bold the black is for the ink pen
Did anyone ever walk into the wrong class in school and initially had that feeling of embarrassment but then are intrigued by the teachings of the class?
Thatâs me and this video. I want to stay for the class lol
That sounds cool. Going into classes thats not your subject. Im tempted to do it.
Iâve done that crap and was so un confortable man idk felt weird
I did... Everyone looked at me and damn it was awkward and embarrassing đ
Yes. It was me a graphic design's student, and entered psychology class, embrassed yes. But in the next semester i joined them when i had to took literacy's class
ub Watching cant relate. Whenever I walked into the wrong classroom I owned it and pretended I didnât notice and I wouldnât leave until the teacher told me to. (I was too prideful to admit that I made a mistake...needless to say I got in trouble a lotđ)
I'd like to see maybe the Glass Pen make a comeback with maybe some more known inks. I love the Windsor and Newton ones and used them on the last Inktober but maybe the drying/smudging could be more controlled with a better more artist aimed ink?
I did pretty good with the bombay black India ink! I love glass dip pens.
Do not disobey the African ostrich
The dollar store had some basic glass pens like this. I used one then went and bought them as Christmas Presents because I had so much fun messing around with it. Definitely recommend.
I'd live to see jazza use the glow in the dark ink. Also I find that because of how the ink is laid down, it takes longer to dry (I give 2 days for complete drying) but I also find that it looks more vibrant. Like black is true black. Where as my felt tips dry duller.
LET'S VOTE!
How long until Jazza breaks the glass pen?
a) less than 2 days;
b) in the first week;
c) ... aaaand it's already broken.
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Results after 70 replys:
a) 8
b) 25
c) 27
B
c
b
B
D) all of the above because it's Jazza
Jazza: Iâm gonna sketch, you guessed it
Me: the Jazza avatar
Jazza: *reveals sketches of the animals*
Me: Ohp-
Ohp, Sorry
Same đ
A
100% me 2!
I actually use one of these for my drawing. I like using pure acrylic ink, but my pen nibs kept getting wider because I am very heavy handed. Since I wanted thin, straight lines, I tried the glass pen. I too am not a fan of the glass feeling (especially when I am dripping down the excess ink in the bottle) but once I got the hand of it I was surprisez to see it was exactly what I was looking for. Also I did manage to sketch with it, given you dont need to dip it as often you can draw much faster and do rougher works
I wanted to buy this for a friend of mine. Glad to see a demo!!
Jazza: Can I erase my sketches without smudging the ink?
**Smudges ink**
Also Jazza: Proceeds to continue erasing.
JAZZA: âYou guessed it!â Me: âJAZZA avatar! Dragon!â...... âoh...â
I-I mean, you did guess it..!đ€Ł
The pros of using this kind of glass pen: it's more sustainable than normal pens :3
Idk why but reading this comment made me sad, actually I do know why đ
True, but like, only the pen part. You would eventually have to throw out the little ink containers and get new ones, wouldn't you? Not sure if those are recyclable or not.
@@Michelleiscul the bottles come in glass
Just use some dry reed ,its the best for ink drawing and its free.........
Because you just give up in art altogether
I user to have one of these as a teenager/child and I used it to write in my secret diary. I always used blue ink. The flow was not as smooth as here but I thought it made the writing process more fun as the pen was beautiful. It also added an uneven style to the writing. Plus not being able to erase forced me to think before writing.
Okay, so first, a disclaimer. I'm new to the whole art thing, and I'm pretty exclusive with watercolors and India inks. But I like to experiment with a lot of different marking tools, and recently picked up a glass dip pen to play with. So here's what I've learned with it so far:
1. You can get different line weights by varying the angle at which you hold the pen. You can't vary as much as you can with a metal nib calligraphy pen, but you can cover pretty much every line weight you can get with a Micron pen.
2. The inks that come with these dip pens are often beautiful for calligraphy, but suck in other applications because of exactly what you discovered. They smudge under an eraser. BUT, you can use them with almost any liquid medium! I use mine with liquid watercolors and India inks. India inks would solve the smudging problem with your style, providing you let it dry completely. And with watercolor, you generally don't want to use an eraser anyway, and you're using the pen more like you would a very fine rigger brush. You can even use pan or tube watercolors, not just liquid watercolors, by using a brush to paint the spirals on the pen tip instead of dipping.
3. With watercolor, these pens are fantastic for adding fine lines and detail. For super fine lines, they work better than a rigger, and if you go wet on wet or wet on damp, you can get a blend effect that's sometimes nicer (and very different) than what you get with a brush. One thing I've found them to be an excellent tool for is to use them dry, on wet watercolor, to drag or scratch things like blades of grass or ropes or other similarly textured things that are harder to get with a brush.
I'm really enjoying the pen for watercolor and India ink. It's not something that would replace my fine brushes or pens, but is a useful addition that can do things you can't with other tools.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
I bought a few glass dip pens precisely for drawing fine lines with my huge stash of watercolors, though I've read that it's even possible to use fountain pen ink with this type of pen, so I'm looking forward to doing some experimenting.
A year late, but i must add, these can take up to two days (or more) to cure!! thats why i may not always do well with erasing
I hadnât considered using watercolors with these! Thatâs really cool and Iâm gonna have to go try that with my set. (I havenât even tried all the ink colors that came with mine, got a set with two glass pens and half a dozen colors and Iâve only opened half of them and havenât even tried the second pen yet.)
I love India inks (and acrylic inks) and watercolor. I just started playing around with India inks recently. Idk why, but they're so satisfying đ